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2247060 - LDAP users receive intermittent timeout errors when attempting to login to various BI applications

Symptom

  • Users receive intermittent timeout errors when logging into BI applications via LDAP. The Enterprise users can login successfully without any error. (BI launchpad, BI mobile, CMC, client tools etc)
  • Errors are more common after times of inactivity such as early in the morning 
  • The BOE web application may become completely unavailable at times
  • Timeout when logging into BILaunchpad or Mobile App
  • After entering in the credentials and clicking logon, the application will sit and eventually display an error stating: timeout.
  • CMS logs could show something like this below. Note the username should be visible, and a long timeout in excess of 85 secdonds, then the CMS checks to see if the connection went down.
    BIP::CMS:Logon
    CSessionMgr::AcceptLogonEx inAuthMethod:secLDAP)
    LDAP: LdapQueryForEntries: *QUERY* base: baseDN, scope: 2, filter: (&(objectclass=person)(cn=username)), attribute: dn objectclass 
    LDAP: LdapQueryForEntries: *QUERY* result: 85 took 85040 ms
    LdapQueryForEntries: Last query timed out. Retrying to see if connection went down.
    SecLdap Error: an error occurred in LdapGetUserEntry().
    LDAP: SecLdap Error: an error occurred in LdapGetUserEntry().
    C3rdParty::AcceptLogin() -- 3d-party plugin returned an empty string as the alias.
    C3rdParty::AcceptLogin() -- 3d-party login failed, but unable to determine for which user!


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Environment

  • SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform 4.x (BI 4.2 / 4.3)
  • Windows
  • Linux / Unix 

Product

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform 4.2 ; SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform 4.3

Keywords

zie lightweight directory access protocol SP fp patch , KBA , BI-BIP-AUT , Authentication, ActiveDirectory, LDAP, SSO, Vintela , Problem

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